Chapter 24 Ant Hills

After a battle, many people were seriously injured, even Shen Yi himself escaped from death, and everyone broke out in a cold sweat.

After using the holy healing technique to heal Ralph's injuries, Shen Yi counted the bullets in the magazine with distress.

A box of C-level armor-piercing bullets consumed more than 30 rounds after one battle, plus 20 rounds for Arias, and now there are more than 40 rounds left. In addition, the remaining D-class armor-piercing bullets and fire bombs were also fired by Arias and Ivans in the battle just now, leaving nothing behind.

Even in the face of Davy Jones, Shen Yi never experienced such a huge consumption, let alone the dozens of rockets fired and the explosives used.

"Sir, the rockets and explosives you gave us earlier are all used up." Lyle reported to Shen Yi.

Shen Yi then took out some more from the bloody coat of arms and gave them to him: "The consumption is too high, but just dealing with a group of berserk beasts and adding a big earthworm, the consumption can catch up with blowing up the entire Shipwreck City."

While complaining, he used Activate on the overturned Mustang. He has double the recovery speed of abilities, and he has a unique advantage in continuous use.

"I guess in your opinion, the worst thing about this battle is that there is not much to gain from this battle." Frost laughed.

"You know me too well, I hate trading at a loss." Shen Yi shrugged, and tossed a black bracelet engraved with earthworm patterns in his hand a few times.

Double D-grade black earthworm bracelet: After wearing it, increase strength and agility by 6 points each. Comes with skill 1 Ground Walking Technique, which can move in the soil, and the stealth speed is 50% of the normal speed. If you encounter an attack while sneaking, the damage will be halved. This skill consumes 2 points of spirit, has no cooling time, and can be used continuously. Skill concealment priority 65. The resistance of the built-in skill 2 is increased, and the resistance to the special effect ability is increased by 1 point. The special effects with a priority of 50 points or less can be directly removed, and the special effects with a priority of 75 points or less are half-effective. This skill does not consume energy, and the cooling time is ten minutes.

No props can be used while using Earth Walk.

As a piece of double D grade equipment, this bracelet is definitely not bad. Not only does it have the ground movement equivalent to the stealth skill, but it can also increase special effect resistance, which is undoubtedly extremely rare.

But considering the difficulty of obtaining it, no matter how he thinks about it, Shen Yi still feels at a loss.

No wonder the adventurers said that without enough strength, one should never even think about the origin of the wilderness.

With his own strength, even if he gathered the equipment strength of the entire team to fight, it was still too difficult.

If Hong Lang, King Kong, Wen Rou, Fatty and Zhou Yiyu could all come over, with Zhou Yiyu's driving talent and Hong Lang's gentle attack, it would definitely be much easier to deal with this black earthworm than before.

Soldiers are still disembowelling the black earthworm and extracting a green bead from it. This kind of beads is a good material for making detoxification potions. Each of them can be exchanged for 10 bottles of intermediate-level detoxification potions. If used directly, it can also be used for detoxification. It is much better than the poison sacs of berserk beast cubs.

After thinking about it, Shen Yi threw the black earthworm bracelet to Frost: "You can keep it."

This scene fell into the eyes of Zhang Jianjun and others, and the three adventurers showed wry smiles at the same time.

Lan Meier gave Zhang Jianjun a look, Zhang Jianjun thought for a while, and finally walked over to Shen Yi and said, "I want to discuss something with you."

Shen Yi looked at Zhang Jianjun: "What's the matter?"

"Can you use the black earthworm bracelet to help us open the return door?"

"you?"

"It's me and Lan Meier."

"What? Are you scared?" Shen Yi asked.

Zhang Jianjun nodded with a wry smile.

If they entered the wilderness before, they still held a sliver of luck in their hearts, then after experiencing three times of hunting and killing wild beasts, they have completely cut off the luck in their hearts.

It must be admitted that they are lucky to be alive.

Therefore, Zhang Jianjun and Lan Meier both wanted to quit at the same time, and they didn't want to go on in this terrible world. Only the gardener still had to look for his lost teammates, so he didn't plan to leave for the time being.

And if he wanted to return to the bloody city, he had to get the piece of equipment in Shen Yi's hands—the black earthworm bracelet was a double-D grade equipment, which could open two personal return doors.

Shen Yi chuckled: "I suddenly discovered that the original door in the wilderness is very easy to do business, that is, to slaughter one or two beasts here first, and then raise the price after getting the equipment, and sell the extra return door... ...Well, that's a good idea."

Zhang Jianjun blushed: "I know that without you, we would probably be dead. But brother Shen Yi, at least we have made some contributions just now. We just need to return to the door, and you just need to help us open it..."

"No!" Contrary to Zhang Jianjun's expectations, Shen Yi flatly refused.

He looked at Zhang Jianjun: "I'm sorry I can't promise you, because I have no obligation to help anyone."

Zhang Jianjun froze, and squeezed out an ugly smile on his face: "Brother Shen Yi, at least I once..."

Shen Yi stopped him: "You helped me deal with Li Song, I am very grateful. But as you said yourself, those two guys are not in my eyes at all. So for you, I can only thank you, not grateful. It is impossible to give up the principle because of this. You have helped me, and I have helped you. You have contributed in battle, but I have contributed even more. Without me, you would have been killed by violent beasts, pterodactyls, and even these The big earthworm was torn to pieces, but I could have won without you. To put it bluntly, I am even more tired of winning because of you here."

As soon as he said this, everyone immediately understood that there were at least a few hole cards hidden in Shen Yi's hand. Their contribution was meaningless to Shen Yi, but instead made him unable to let go.

It's just because of this that Zhang Jianjun and others couldn't figure out why Shen Yi wanted to go with them.

Or the gardener said: "Do you have a place to use us?"

Shen Yi nodded: "There are some things that equipment and summoning soldiers can't do. I do need you, so I hope you can stay and help me. Don't worry, as long as you do things for me, I will Nature will give you what you deserve."

The gardener raised his eyebrows: "Anyway, I won't leave until I find my teammate. Just tell me what you need us to do for you. Although we didn't help you in these two battles, ordinary summoned soldiers can Let you play to that point, I believe we will not have any value at all. But there is a condition, if it is too dangerous a task, we have the right to refuse or you increase the share ratio or you hire us directly."

"no problem."

"Then tell me what you want to do first."

Shen Yi thought for a while before answering: "Speaking of which, the main purpose of my trip to the wilderness is to understand the environment and collect information. The equipment and so on are secondary. But there is one thing that I am very eager to get... the team assembly order. "

"Team assembly order?" Zhang Jianjun opened his mouth wide.

"Well, I know it's not easy, and I don't have to get it, but I have to try before I'm willing, isn't it?"

Zhang Jianjun was about to cry: "Boss, if you want to get the team assembly order, you have to go to Ant Hill. Do you know where it is?"

Shen Yi smiled: "Of course, the biggest place of death in East Second District. How about it, are you interested?"

The gardener curled his lips: "Interesting, that's a place where even the blood stingers haven't made up their minds. I really want to see how you plan to do it, so I'll accept your invitation. As for the price... go to the place After that, let’s see what mission you send to decide.”

"That's a deal."

Zhang Jianjun and Lan Meier looked at each other. It was obvious that they had no right to object in this matter. After knowing that Shen Yi was the captain of the 641 team that wiped out the blood stabbing team, they didn't even have the right to resist. up.

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Ant Hills.

This is one of the connection points between East Second District and East Third District.

The entire wilderness is a huge wilderness with a diameter of about 10,000 kilometers. Each difficulty zone is a hollow circle sitting on it. Among them, the second difficulty area has the smallest area, with a diameter of 1,000 kilometers, a circumference of less than 3,200 kilometers, and an area of ​​about 80,000 square kilometers. Within 200 kilometers of the core is the bloody city, with an area of ​​about 30,000 square kilometers.

Since the entire area is cut by a cross, the westward border of the East Second District is about 800 kilometers, and the border between the North and South Districts is 400 kilometers.

On the long 800-kilometer border, most places are naturally Jedi, and ordinary adventurers cannot pass freely at all. The Ant Hill is one of the free passages leading to the two regions.

To say it is free is not necessarily free.

The entire ant hill has a vast area and is densely covered with ant nests of various sizes.

These ants are not the real ants in people's common sense. In fact, they are just a group of terrifying lives that look like ants in appearance and living habits. There are sharp palate teeth under their mouths, and sharp barbs on their claws. They are greedy and fierce by nature, attacking all possible targets. On weekdays, they feed on sand and soil, and when they encounter large beasts, they will rush out of the nest. The dense army of ants can swallow a black earthworm in an instant, leaving only a shelf.

On the entire Ant Hill, there are not a few skeletons of such ferocious beasts. They lie quietly on the wasteland, as if they are warning all those who try to cross this hill with their own tragic experience. Hidden turbulent undercurrent.

Standing on a small hillside, Shen Yi carefully observed the distant hills with a telescope.

A few scattered black ants on the hill were pacing boredly, occasionally colliding with each other with their long antennae, confirming each other and receiving information through the breath spreading in the air.

Behind them, a large number of worker ants are working hard, digging out the red soil on the hills and transporting them back to the ant nests-that is their staple food, in the absence of meat.

From a distance, they are like vertical and horizontal black lines on the rice paddies, running through the entire hill into countless large squares.

In the center of the hill, a long red clay road runs from east to west and extends to the end of the west end.

Here is the so-called corridor of life.

Countless adventurers used their lives and blood to open up a so-called "safest" passage through the ant hills.

At the end of the passage, a humanoid skeleton could be vaguely seen lying there.

Presumably some unlucky adventurer tried to cross here, but unfortunately failed.

Maybe some Difficulty 3 adventurer who wants to make a fortune on Difficulty 2? Probably thought that as a high-difficulty adventurer, he could run wild in the East Second District, right? It could also be someone who used a random teleportation scroll and unfortunately ended up near the ant nest...

Shen Yi put down the binoculars: "Going down from here is the corridor of life. The entire corridor of life is about 20 kilometers long, and there are two ant nests nearby, both of which are small ant nests, only double D-level, and we cannot get the team we need. make."

"You need it, not us." Zhang Jianjun answered angrily.

Lan Meier asked: "Since this is the case, why choose the life channel?"

"It's been a long time since the information I have obtained. Wild wild beasts, especially those that live in groups, will gradually grow in size over time. Therefore, many information cannot be fully believed. The so-called small ant nest , and now it has already grown into a double C class."

"So it's like this, that is to say, unless someone destroys them, the corridor of life is no longer as easy to pass as it used to be?" Lan Meier asked.

"Things will always change, but in the end, we still have to go and see. We must find out the location and strength of the two ant nests. The most important thing is to find out if we attack one of them, will the other one be able to attack?" Help. And if so, what should we do about it."

Zhang Jianjun emphasized again: "It's you, not us."

"I'm not Bloody City, so I won't arrange death missions for you... Even Bloody City doesn't arrange death missions."

"Unless you are looking for death." Lan Meier interrupted: "Since you know that the team assembly order can only be obtained in a double C-level ant nest, you must also know what kind of defense a double C-level ant nest has?"

Lan Meier and the others have only heard of the horror of the ant hills, but they don't have a specific concept of how terrible it is.

Shen Yi was silent for a while, then pointed to a corpse the size of a hill in the distance: "Did you see that? It was the corpse of a sawtoothed mammoth. One sawtoothed mammoth can easily crush three Smith black earthworms to death .But coming to the ant hills...they're just food."

Looking at the people around him, Shen Yi said slowly: "In the ant hills, there are almost no other beasts. Most of the beasts that dare to enter the black ant territory, even some beasts with difficulty three, will be mobbed by them. Attack it."

"The most frightening thing about ant hills is the sheer number. Each ant nest is equivalent to the strength of a group of pterodactyls, and there are thousands of such ant nests on ant hills. What we have to do , is to choose the most powerful one among some ant nests, and then quickly defeat it!"

"It's you, not us!" Everyone repeated together.